Prepare yourself for a discussion of slash fanfic, Sharktopus, Threedayfish on sexaholics, the shared universe, tiny monsters, and Ingrid’s Breakfast.
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FC09 - Ingrid's Breakfast
[music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast Episode 9. Prepare yourself for slash-fanfic, shark-dopus, three-day fish on sexaholics, the shared universe, tiny monsters, and Ingrid's breakfast. [music] Tonight we have myself, OpoponX, Empress of Illustration, and Duchess of Narration. Jessica May, the queen of audio production and galactic senator of our hearts, naturally. And finally, JRD. Hello. Keyboard poker. So Barry pointed out this thing to me earlier in the week. Actually, I think you might have mentioned it last week, but I only really followed it up this, maybe early this week. Shark-dopus. Shark-dopus? You showed me. It's not a shark versus an octopus. It's a shark combined with an octopus. So it's like, if instead of a-- But like in a laboratory. So there's a link in the laboratory? Because I was going to say instead of shark versus octopus, it'd be like shark loves octopus. Yeah. No, they're always at odds, but always connected. Yeah. It's a lovers. It's a lovers relationship. Actually, I was reading about something called sea bishops today. And they called them sea bishops, and they look like fish, but they were bishops. Like if you look up a picture, you probably would have-- Oh my gosh, yes. I've heard of those. They looked like fish, but they were bishops. No, they're-- Fish bishops. Yeah. They have a funny bishop hat-- They look like a little man. Awesome. But they're fish. The theory I read, though, behind that was that-- because it's a mythical creature, technically, a fish bishop. Yeah, you forgot to mention that. Oh. Yeah. They look like little fishermen. But they think that-- You're going to put in the show notes, right? They think that-- yeah, I'll throw a link to the fish bishop. They think that the fish bishop was a squid, right? Because a squid has that sort of pointy hat and everything. So people would just get this description. It was like-- Weird. But fish with long arms and a pointy hat. Fish. Fish. Naturally. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway-- Sorry. Sorry. I was going to say, when I was looking at all those tiny little monsters last time, I found a bunch of really interesting ones, like the pipe fox that came across in the Japanese mythology. Right. The canko, I think it was called. Right. Give me the information again. It was a little fox that magicians would carry around in pipes in their sleeves. And then they would take them out and just ask them a question. Oh, yeah, they were a fox the size of mice, right? Yeah. A rat fox. A rat fox, yeah. That's so cute. I know. I love a rat fox. Where's my rat fox? Yeah. Charity. The reason I kind of was thinking about it, though, I think we're getting into this period. And it very directly relates to pulp because of this. If you look at sort of, say, late '70s, early '80s, you're getting to a point where semi-decent props and special effects are available even to like the worst kind of filmmakers. And that's where the slasher kind of genre maybe comes out of. And a lot of those early horror movies. What ended up happening was because, well, not because, but as that playing field became increasingly leveled and people became more like do it at home kind of with their special effects, we started moving into computer effects, right? Like it was right about that same time. Like Star Wars hits and things start picking up for computer stuff. And then mid '80s, I don't know what the film would be. But you started getting this weird abyss kind of period where you're getting these massive special effects like Temple of Doom and stuff, which are all just practical effects. And that's really like the end of that mind shaft chase, for example. That's not something you would see in a practical effect these days. Yeah. Absolutely. And so now we're getting into a phase, though, where it's almost that same plateau where in "Shark to Puss" is a good example of this. Although "Shark to Puss" effects aren't great, they're still enough for you to watch. Yeah. They're still enough for you to just sort of hang out and watch. And we're getting to the point where you can make a cheap movie with crazy things happening in it if you just use a little bit of time and talent and some pretty cheap special effects, computer effects. And you're not overreaching too far. Like you're not doing entire scenes with the whole everything that's going on in the shot being CG or something. It's the one "Shark to Puss." Yeah. And you inserted into that. And a bunch of, yes. Yeah. Actors pretending that there is, in fact, a "Shark to Puss" in front of them. But the problem for this was crazy. There's nothing else for them to do this "Shark to Puss" like nothing else. Oh, the problem really seemed to reveal the entire plot of the film. Well, yeah, not even that. But no monster could ever beat this monster because this monster was so like-- It was a shark to put it to the bone and jazz. What if a shark was crossed with an octopus and an electric eel? Or like another shark. Two sharks? Two octopuses? Yeah. Naturally. You would think that the "Shark to Puss" would lose some of its swimming dynamics. Kind of losing that-- What do you think it would lose speed? I think there'd be more draggy gutting legs. Although an octopus-- well, an octopus and a fish swim in entirely different patterns, right? Like, doesn't an octopus essentially propel itself by moving all of its legs in and out at the same time, whereas a fish is more of a side-to-side motion? Anyway, this is sort of a ridiculous discussion. Which is faster, octopus or a shark. I would put my money on the octopus, really? Well, then, it means I'm going to wet the bet, because that's never going to happen. I feel like this is a discussion which is eventually going to leave this down a disturbing YouTube hole in which we end up watching animal fights. So maybe we should just-- I don't want to go there. Maybe we should just move on to-- Back through watch. So last week, I had sort of-- not a thematic idea in mind, but we started on a high note. I felt like there was a lot of children throughout the week. And they all sort of led increasingly to look at it. The first one was Mulligan? Yeah, it was Mulligan in the-- Naval Gazer. Yeah, Naval Gazer. I don't want to give away details, because it's still a little fresh. But yes, it was Mulligan in a little 11-year-old girl, I believe I made her. Yeah, so are I-- no, she was eight. Eight, feasibly. That isn't eight years old. Yeah, well, we can-- we know how eight-year-olds work. Yeah, we can relate to eight-year-olds, as well. Yes, relate, that's the word, sorry. So and then-- oh, no, sorry. I'm mixing my own characters up. Yes. The spy was an eight-year-old. It was the unfortunate incident in the coffin story, which involved an 11-year-old. Yes. Anyway, my point was that I started the week sort of on a high, happy note. And as we kind of went down, I felt like I was ramping it downwards, which was sort of nice to feel like we were moving in a direction, because I do feel, even though a lot of people just go through the backlog whenever they do, it feels nice to have a momentum for the week, or even if they aren't necessarily part one, part two, part three, or whatever. Yeah, yeah. But they have the natural flow together, like it makes sense for the order that they're in. Which also sort of leads me into this week's, because we've done-- we did a one-parter, which I actually wanted to dedicate to a certain three-day fish. He was requesting, and if you recall, on the last/cast, he was mentioning sort of the single one-shot, maybe-- Or he was saying, yeah, he was saying, where did they go? And was it a choice, or was it something that just naturally evolved, and it ended up sparking your imagination for a chiller? Yeah, I don't think I could just squeeze one out, or whatever. But I happen to come across an idea, and I think that it was just a matter of having-- when it's on my radar, it starts to-- Ruminade, yeah. Yeah. Well, just the filters, you start picking up things. You're looking for things in a certain kind of tint of glasses. So that one was for him. But then I'm kind of excited about the next two episodes of the week. Wednesday, we're going to be doing a Thomas Blackhall story. And although it's not indicated on the this week thing on the site, part two of that story, which will be Friday, will be a Wilkoffin story. I'm really excited about this one. I'm finding it a little bit tough to write, because I'm having to be careful about how I mix and match my characters and what happens when. I'm also having-- well, I don't want to get too much into the nuts and bolts, but I am finding it a bit of a pain. It's the first one-- or it's the first two-parter I've ever done, and there's a lot of decisions to be made about how much is said in one part. Yeah, yeah. I can understand that, because there's a natural sort of build, I think, with a three-parter, right? Well, I can easily just break it down to the three acts or whatever. And then we went on. And even with a six-parter, I tend to write it in two halves, but it's like I have room to set those halves up. If you recall, for example, the Alcarra six-parter. Parts one through three were essentially the murder-- the meeting and murder of Princess Ida, and then parts four through six were more related to the actual Alcarra and Black Wall's journey and everything. Anyway, so I'm finding it interesting but difficult. Yeah, absolutely. There's a certain amount of math to it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, there's some very strict rules I need to follow that I'm figuring out as I go along. I want to-- there's a lot of things I want to discuss, but I need to save it for the males, because most of it's related to people's letters. Absolutely, for sure. The males to male. So shall we move into-- The Audi, oh, an accident of hope. I've chosen to discuss something in particular that doesn't really have a whole lot to do with me other than I was able to catch it with the microphone, and that is that you had-- or Opoponax had to repeat a line that she kind of flubbed the first time through that we hadn't really noticed that she laughed through when she was trying to be quite serious. So we had to go back, and the moment we realized that we had to re-record it, I knew it would be so hard to re-record, because usually we're quite giggly by the end, or by the time that we're going a second round to fix something with the final edit, it ended up just being so ridiculous, because of what it was that she had to re-record. But it's like the funniest line that Jaredie has ever written ever, and oh god, it was just so much fun. No. Well, it ended up taking so many times, and I have audio of that, so at the end of this episode, after the music, I'm going to put it out there, and she's just going to make several attempts at saying something ridiculous. It was for the chiller, right? It was yesterday's chat. Yep, it was for Monday. And it's totally worthless. And if you've heard the episode, I'm sure you know exactly what the line is. Still makes my laugh when I think about it. You're not going to deliver for us. Mama's got a number two! And so on and so forth, but she can't get through it right now. Okay, well let's just move right into the art of narration then, because this seems like a good lead-in. The art of narration. Not much to say? No, no. Mama's got a number two. Mama's got a number two. Oh, wait, no, actually. I've got a shapoopa. A poopy. Poopy are good off the pot, is it? Yeah, poopy are good off the pot, is it? Yeah, poopy are good off the pot. Okay. So that's fine, because we've got a large mail sack this week. And why don't we just dive right in, because I suspect we're going to go quite a while. Yeah, absolutely. Let's just get into it. So first I want to read a quick email from Jeff over at Baller Some Things. And, you know, just to say, like, I really appreciate that there's so much stuff to get through, and it's really nice that we've made the call out for fans to say something and they are. So that's awesome. Yeah, no, it's very nice to have peeps, saying things. So Jeff, a fantastic fellow from BallerSomeThings.com. Hala. Hey, Jake, just finished listening to the latest FC, after being down and out with a stomach flu for two days. I can't help but think that viruses are the ultimate little monsters. That's right. Just a thought, Jeff. Very good. Very good observation, Jeff. Okay. Question. If Shark to Puss was tiny. Tiny, tiny, but there were millions of him. That would be terrifying. Yeah, okay. That's pretty terrifying. But why don't you make a movie of it? You know about my fear about little monsters and how they're so much scarier than giant monsters. Yeah. Well, I think this is why he's mentioning it, because we had discussed her upper monsters and you had mentioned your Indian in the cupboard chair. They'll eat your whole, and you won't feel it, the little monsters. It takes a long time for them to snack on you. Yikes. Oh. Anyways, let's move on. From little monsters. Thanks a lot, Jeff. I really appreciate the e-mail. I feel like sometimes we skim over the e-mail so fast, but we still love you. Yeah. That makes me also think about viruses and bacteria, mind you, that's not hugely pulp, unless it left you with some crazy ailment, like leprosy, or just some crazy face. Did I ever tell, oh, have I told the story, I put my mom, have I told that story on this podcast? In our extreme constipation? No. Is it the... So my mom would often tell us when we were children to stop making faces, or our faces would get stuck that way. Oh, yeah. I heard that. Never from my mother, though. Mm-hmm. And so one day we're walking into the mall. I remember it very distinctly. Oh, gosh. We're walking into the mall. And this isn't... This is a more innocent time. This is years and years ago when people were a little more freer with their tongues. And a fellow with Down syndrome walks by, and he's looking a little rough. And she essentially waits till he passes, and then she says, "See, I told you." Oh. His face got stuck that way. My God. I thought you were going to say like, "Mom, he did what you said I should never do." No, I totally... You know what? You see whatever, but I totally remember her essentially equating the two. Wow. I hope she doesn't hear you say that. Yeah, I know. Well, she said it. She always tells me that I'm wrong about these things, though. Oh. Well, then I guess you're wrong about that. Gotta match for my Catholic memory. Your Flashcast team. I thought I'd let you know that I enjoy the Wilcoff and Stoy's very much. It seems to me that they are continuing episodes. Yes. The Wilcoff and Stoy's are pretty close to, they're all going to be very close to each other. I don't think there's ever going to be a mat. Well, there could be periods within a Storian, which a large period goes by, but my suspicion is that most Wilcoff and Stoy's are going to happen pretty Bing-Bang-Boom on top of each other. Like in the same neighborhood with around the same sort of folk. Yes. And there's not going to be a huge gap between Stoy's, because Will is a physical fellow. The Black Hole, it jumps around a lot. Like you're not quite sure in the timeline, unless you're really paying attention. Yes. I try to leave hints for those who really care, but I do also do that on purpose, though, to kind of make it like, to make it so that you don't have to know where you are. It's just, he's somewhere in the wilderness, fine. Yes. This is happening. Yeah. But yes, absolutely correct, Ingrid. The chronology is sound. I like that coffin is talking to the dead people in a very natural way, and I wonder if there's a story behind his ability. Um, yeah, I'm going to get a little more into the hook thing. I was going to say there's got to be something to do with the hook. I'm going to clear that up over time. I love the hook. I love the idea. With the little piece of jerky on the end of it. That's not jerky. There's so much to reveal about that, but I don't want to give it all away here because it's going to, like this is all story fodder for later on. Um. Yes. But yes. Absolutely. Yeah, sorry. Ingrid. Yes, absolutely. We're going to get into that. Of course, I love the way Bunny talks. It's amazing. And a Popon X is reading is excellent and very enjoyable. I love being Bunny. It's so much fun. And Jessica, your sensors paying attention. I won't learn to, I won't learn to curse in English. Um. Very nice. Yes. But Ingrid is originally or possibly still in Austria. We have a mail order course. Oh, it's over. Yeah. So English is all I know. I think it's pretty impressive that she does so well. Yeah, she does amazingly well in English. She is actually a poetess. We've seen her blog. I believe dancing Ella's words is what she operates under on Facebook if I'm correct. It's lovely. Oliver, I'd like to remark that I think you do excellent work and I'm looking forward to the next episode. Just a note. Maybe you're interested to know. But I listened to the Flashcast shows during my breakfast, so I always have a good start to these days. Aww. Thank you guys. A fan named Ingrid. We're proud of the balanced breakfast. A fan named Ingrid. That's so great. I know. That is so neat. It's the first time. I guess I just always the same people listened to it in the evening because that's when I record it and it has the evening sort of feel to me. But I can always see with the stats, like a lot of the times there's a little blip of people who start downloading immediately after it's released. And I don't know if they're just people with their iTunes open and automatically starts going or whatever. But then there's always the second jump in the morning when people just start piling on around nine Eastern time and that continues on a pretty solid curve tool. Yeah, right before the drive to work or something. So what do you eat for breakfast when you listen to Flash? Ooh, that's a good question. That's my question. Yeah. Pop tarts. No. Some extreme pop tarts. Okay. If I were to guess what Ingrid would eat, our dancing Ella, hmm, I'd say something very simple, like granola air, sure, like biscuit, something with milk, something wholesome, oatmeal maybe. And a grapefruit. Yeah, something very well balanced or nothing, maybe she's just a coffee lady. Hm. Hm. Anyways. I wonder. But I'm so glad that you have a routine about it. That's very exciting to me. So our next email from Barry, always fantastic read, bmj2k.com. The delay in producing the next Flashcast method, I could actually do this in a timely manner for once. And we appreciate it. Even though I wanted to do this episode on Sunday and I did not really worry so much about zombie man and anime eyes and their denial of... Listen, you told the internet that we were going to do it, then informed us like four hours later. This is right before the Oscars, like there's two shows I got to watch. I'm going to punch you in the answers. The Oscars and the Grammys. And it was Oscar night and I was informed very late, it was a very messy, stinky day with the babies, and I really like, I don't wanna, not a wanna. You can't make us. Indeed. So it is Tuesday, which is our backup day if we don't do it Sunday. Here I am. Okay. Okay. Refan fiction. Marvel store is not fanfic because they are writing about the Marvel version of the character, which is virtually unrecognizable as the Norse version. It is an original character with the same name, no Norsemen would recognize Marvel store if you could even find a Thor worshiping Norseman. That's a challenge right there. If there were to write new adventures, if that was probably recognizably the Norse god, I would probably call it, oh sorry, I totally murdered that. If they were to write new adventures of what was recognizably the Norse god, I would probably call it fanfic. And he has a totally good point there. Although to go down another layer, adventures in babysitting, was that fanfic? I guess it was more of an homage because there was a Thor character in that and it was totally Thor. It was a Marvel Thor. Yeah. Yeah. Completely. However, if I were to write stories about Marvel store, that would be fanfic. Please do, and send them in. I have generally low opinion of fan fiction. It is a cheat because it starts off three steps or so ahead of an original story. The characters have developed, the relationships already exist, and the universe is fleshed out. And so far, you can go with fanfic. For example, a story where Captain Kirk got tired of Starfleet and moved to a space con to many of them and hung around the pool all day, isn't keeping within the Star Trek parameters. Of course, amateur Trek fanfic is almost/ anyway. The first time I read a K/S story featuring physical love between Kirk and Spock, I was surprised to say the least. Wait, the first time? Flash fiction kind of disturbs me. I don't mean to equate it with something as serious as rape, but a little bit, a little bit. It's kind of like making these characters that are entirely outside of your control into people doing things that they wouldn't normally do. You're looking at me like you've written some sort of story you want to tell me about. Do you get some sort of confession to make? No. I think maybe it just sounds like we just said he sounds like a rapist, though. No, I think he's totally on the same lane. He's in the same lane I am. He was surprised when he read the Kirk and Spock stuff. I don't think he's like, "I hate fan fiction, but..." So anyway, that said, if anybody ever wants to write any Flash pulp fan fiction, send it in. I'd definitely be interested to read that. And if it was good enough, I'd probably shove it at the end of a Flashgaster even in the middle. Well, now if you don't put it up there, people are going to think you don't think it's good enough. I'm very judgmental. Okay. Yes. I never knew that about him. I'm very judgmental about my own characters. Oh, okay. I'm just kidding. I'm totally being sarcastic. No slash. On the other hand, the Star Trek section at Barnes & Noble is ridiculously large, so who am I to complain? Back in the '90s, I had my own brush with fanfic. I crossed Columbo with the prisoner. Instead of Patrick McGougan's, I'm totally mispronouncing that, I apologize. Number six, it was Columbo brought to the village. They're constantly frustrated by the character's lack of backstory. Number six awoke in a replica of his apartment, but because he never saw what Columbo's home, he awoke in the back seat of his car. Number two, who ran the village, had a file of every bit of data and number six's life. But Columbo's file was about three pages long and full of blank sections. They knew he ate chili, and he was married to Mrs. Columbo. That's it. Columbo wore down number two simply by being his usual rumpled self. That's awesome. I love Columbo. But tell me just one more thing. You know, I was having this conversation with a friend today, or yesterday on the phone, about Columbo, and man, he was always, it was always just at the last moment. I always thought, maybe he won't do it this time, and he always did that, you know, eventually, even as a child, I was rooting for the villain. Really? Yeah. How could you do that? Columbo. I don't know. He was guzzy dirty, and it always seemed like he was just snarky, like, oh, hey, I was just messing around and making you feel that crap for a while, and thinking that you're getting away with it. But heh heh heh, it's just like, hey, jerk, they've gone through enough, have they not? They murdered somebody. I don't know. I always go for the guy who doesn't look like he's going to win. If ever I turned on a hockey game as a child, whoever was losing, that's why I wanted to win. Charles Manson, because he was in prison. No, no, not Charlie Manson. Heh heh heh heh. Just other killers, fictional killers, yeah, not for realsies, not like brainwashing women. Who is that, uh, who's that Senator that looks like Columbo? Sherrod, something? Oh, Sherrod, uh, Brown, but he doesn't really look like Columbo, he just sounds like he should be a gruff and he's not the curly messier. He doesn't sound like Columbo, he sounds like he should be a private detective, is what it is. He doesn't sound like Columbo specifically, but he sounds like he should be a private detective. I believe every word he says because of it. Re shared universe. Have you ever gone back to earlier stories and re-edited them to make them fit into a shared universe? Now that your universe is expanded, would you go back and put in a reference to something that did not exist at the time the story was written? I think I'm going to take a guess here before you actually give me the real answer, but I think that for a lot of your characters, you have their universe pretty much already mapped out so it's not like you really have to go back. I think that we wanted to go back just because we're better at things and we don't want the quality to bury so much, but we haven't. Yeah, if I was to go back, it would be mostly like I read those early first few episodes and even, you know, later on and it just makes me cringe. Oh, and the sound editing, like, I remember the stupid crap I used to do and it would just take me hours and hours and hours, like, newbie, you remember the big tent over the chair? Yeah. Well, we had rooms with very large ceilings and a lot of echo, so you had to be like in a cave. So the thing is though, to get back to the shared universe concept, since the beginning - well, not since the beginning, but it's just been building over time where I felt like all of these things are happening in the same place and because the characters are so spread out in a way, it's been pretty easy to not have to worry about them stepping on each other's toes. Like, Will Coffin is really the only person living contemporously with the other people that I can think of. Now the odd man out on that, of course, is Ruby, who is a bit of an oddity, but she does fit into the universe, she's just in a place that I can't really explain right now. It's hard to - let's just say there's a reason Joe is where he is. Anyway, I haven't ever - I don't think I'm ever going to go back and insert some device or plot detail that would make things easier for me. You remember, well, actually, I know you remember, Paul, Jay, Paul, Paul, Jay, Triple Ock, and blah, blah, blah. Repairman Jack's writer. Oh, F. Paul Wilson. F. Paul Wilson. Yeah, he had to go back and reprise a bunch of his books. He killed a major character that he decided he actually wanted to continue doing stuff, so he essentially had to unkill him, didn't he? I don't know if he ever really intended on him to die in the first place. What? He wrote it. Was he on drugs? No. Is that not right? Well, like, write an entire history for a character that was like in the second and last book. So he had to fit the timeline of the adversary cycle. Oh, you're getting into details, no one knows. Exactly. Anyway, yes. My point being that I wouldn't go back and insert something. I feel like that's cheating. I'm a bit of a master of making continuity fit, though, and ask me some time about how Evil Dead 1 and 2 actually make sense together, because most people think that the opening of Evil Dead 2 is just a recap of Evil Dead 1, because they couldn't get the licensing rights, which is actually correct, but anyway. But that's not how they spun it. Well, that's not how I've spun it to my own brain, because I have a terrible need for canon to work. I don't bother to make if it doesn't. That's the longest you've come up with a story for yourselves. Yeah. Well, I constantly have to correct these problems other people are making. Other writers. Other writers. Thanks so much for the email, Barry. As usual, letters are often the high point of the show. What? Um, of Openax was just about too young, but then she heard herself do this little air suck though, that I have to edit out, and so she immediately closed her mouth and smiled, so then I did too. And then I looked over at my burn. We had to take a little longer to record tonight, because we had to recover from burns. Some cooking incidents. There was a pan on the stove that we don't normally put in the oven, and we just kept forgetting, so people just kept grabbing at it, and then screaming in pain. So then a Openax just wore mittens for a while, just to make sure that somebody would be on her game. I know to be the one that wasn't burned, so now we're in pain, but we're okay, right? But I'm not wearing shippers anymore. I'm okay. You're okay. We're all okay. Hey, guys. It's a friend of the State Raycon. I just listened to Flash Cassidy. Good stuff. Very entertaining. Very informative too. Um, just wanted to make a comment. I guess I didn't get around to making this sooner, but, uh, the whole censoring bunny. Kind of bringing me back to my childhood when I used to swear a lot as a kid, but to get away from, to get around swearing in front of adults, I just bleed myself, and it worked. I got away with it. So, every time I hear the beep, it just kind of reminds you of that time, and I think it can kick out of it. Jared, you might even learn a number of that. Um, the other comments I had to make, I'm not sure. You might even learn a number of that, um, the other comment I had to make, a small confession, but Jessica made, "Don't feel too bad." I also had a very big phobia of little killer dolls. What about a dagger? A hollow. Um, I just, I know where it comes from. It's a long story. I don't really want to get into it, but, yeah, Chuck, he's too afraid of the, the Jesus out of me. But eventually I got out of it, and then I grew to my size, and little things don't scare me so much anymore, 'cause I don't want to, but now I'm just glad to see. Keep up the good work. Um, I'm sure you as well hear from me at some point soon. Alright, bye. I think he's saying he got over his fear, which I guess, what is he saying about me who hasn't got over her fear? Well, he got giants, and I'd help. Listen, when little children run down a hallway that is very dark, backlit, and they run at you, listen, they can do things that are quite frightening, and just because it doesn't feel quite new doesn't mean that it isn't truly, truly frightening to others. It seems like your tiny, fear, like, tiny stuff fear. They run so fast. Yeah, it seems like your tiny, it seems like your tiny monster fear has really struck a chord, though, is what I'm saying. Or a duel. I just got finished listening to Flashcassy, and all the talk of movies reminded me of a movie I saw that made me think of the show recently, but maybe it's called Cowboys and Aliens, and I thought it seemed pulpy. It's got the James Bond guy in it, Blond Bond, as he had called by some I know. I think it's, uh, it's Daniel something, I know that, ask Watson, the J.A.B.R.E. robot. Anyway, wondering if you knew about that movie and found it to be pulp relevant, that's all. Always listening. See, it's meant to be endearing, but you can't help but give it that spin. In my mind, I want it to be like, "Oh, it's listening." Anyway, yeah, we've totally heard of Aliens vs. Cowboys or Cowboys and Aliens or whatever it's called. I'm quite excited. Yeah, the previews look pretty funny. Harrison Ford. Aliens. I love Cowboys. I also think that that movie falls into what I was talking about earlier, where special effects have gotten to the point where one day, once would have been the realm of, like, your Independence Day and your incredibly ridiculous budgets can now be risked on a movie about Cowboys fighting Aliens because it's not that tough to do. Well, it's nice when they take it with some humor, as opposed to the devastating intensity of Independence Day. I mean, it was really popular, but it took itself very, very seriously. Oh, goodness. Bill Smith punching an alien is really the only thing, well, and the White House blowing up that I recall of that film. It's welcome to cigar. What about Jeff Goldblum? I love Jeff Goldblum too much to hold that movie against him. So there's something I'm going to play and we're going to have to come. But thanks for the audio, Colin. Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Excellent job. Please do call again. He actually, I have a follow-up, three-day fish is not, he is still part of our story. But I have to play another, another call, yeah, I have to play another call, which loops back to an email that he followed up with. Okay. So. Order is key. Hi, yes. My name is. I'm looking for some information on your website about sex addicts, anonymous, I'm having some issues and I need to discuss it with a grouper with somebody because I'm being told I am a sex addict, so and I think they're somewhat right, so if you may call back. I think what? What was the last part of that? I think they're somewhat right. Somewhat. So, three-day fish followed up with an email, something, we had known there was some sort of church group that had our email or something to that effect. Or at least a group that meets at a church, yes. That has meetings and anyone who does not describe what their meeting is called is ashamed of that meeting. Yes. Three-day fish rights. Hey, JRT. I believe I've discovered the source of your oddball colors. I googled your number and this link came first and I'll post it in the show notes. Seems to answer all your questions. You might want to keep it under your hat, though, I would see someone trying to make a lawsuit out of this if they found out that your, their calls that ended up on someone's phone. But, yeah. Thought it was funny. I hope this doesn't cause you any headaches. Always listening to your podcast. Three-day fish. P.S. I hope you guys got my audio comment, which we did. Thank you very much. I think, like, we didn't include their number, right? No, we've, I think we've leaped out all identifying information. But we should mention, because I haven't yet, that it's sexaholics anonymous. In Florida? Yes, we are essentially listed as the Florida number to call for some reason. And, like, we're in Canada. Well, it's because I'm using the voicemail number as a free-floating feature for some of you. Yeah, no, it's just, it is so crazy, hilarious and fantastical. Like, not for them, obviously, but... Well, I think, okay, wait, I want to loop back and address that guy. That guy does not sound like he's serious about getting this stuff figured out. I think that he is admitted to his wife or something that he is messing around with a lot of people. And she's like, "You need to see somebody," and he's like, or even, he's like, "No, don't leave me. I'll go see somebody for it." But now he's kinda like... No, somebody just broke up with him because they were too busy, I think. You think so? You think it was just like... Because he was too busy? He sounded single. His voice said single. People who are sexaholics, generally, I don't think are, are married. I think they get into too much of a... No, I think sex, I think sex addiction is entirely a front for just married people having sex with strangers or other people that said the relationship in their life. Like any addiction? How could it be sex? It can become, or it can display itself as, you know, in some other form. You're so understanding. So obviously we need to contact the website and get them to pull down our number. They just kinda sexed. That was a lot of fun. 'Cause it's so awesome. Thanks for pointing that out that we'll get in trouble 'cause now we can't listen to them. What? A very... Oh, hey, that's not nice, man. He did... You know what, 3D Fish? I really appreciate it. Don't listen to these who listen. I mean, it's pretty awesome that you looked that up for us. I appreciate that. I should actually... You should contact me and let me know if you mind if I distribute your Twitter account. I always forget to ask you about that. It's the only real outlet I know you have. If you have a website or something you want to push a little bit on the air or whatever, we'd be happy to do it for you. Definitely in exchange for your fantastic detective work. So I think we're gonna just close it up with a nice comment left for us by L Nutty Nutges. I hope I pronounced it correctly. So many times you may want to... This is on the iTunes Store. Thank you very much, Nutty. You should check out her Nutty Bytes podcast. I will link it in the show notes. So many times you may want to listen to something but don't have the time to listen to a 40-60 podcast. FlashPelp is perfect for that. Three to ten minute stories that can fit into your day-to-day life. It helps that these stories are fun and engaging. My favorite so far Ruby departed in the murder plague. Keep up the great work you three. A great crew. One writes, one reads, and illustrates, and the other takes care of the sound and editing. You all rock. Aw, you're so nice to us. Thank you, Nutty. Nutges or something. I'm not even able to describe that. Nutty. Yeah, no, we really appreciate it, and that actually reminded me what I wanted to look back to. Jeff mentioned the virus thing, the virus being the scariest things of all. But that's exactly what the murder plague is about, right? That's true, exactly. And although I... It's just a strangely behaving virus. It doesn't behave like regular viruses. I've never really got around to it, but there may be also a virus involved with the Ruby departed. Yeah, yeah, there's something else I wanted to say, but I don't think I should. All right, then, okay, so I'm awesome about Ruby departed. That the apocalypse may not be the apocalypse. Ah, yeah, well, let's not get into the two-inch of that. How many of our apocalypse are actually Apokolai? We'll get into that at some point in the future. And we'll get into that. Stay tuned. In the world. In the world. Um, yeah, so good morning, Ingrid. Yeah. Welcome to the start of your day. Enjoy your breakfast, whatever it may be. Oh, no, no, no, no. I think it's maybe coffee. I think it's just coffee. Yeah. She can do that while she's drinking her coffee. Well, no, but she said breakfast, though, yeah, it implies that there's something more meaningful there. It's the grapefruit. Grapefruit, maybe some toast, maybe a light cereal. No, that's too much for her. Do you think so? She's a skinny lady. Yeah. I don't think you can necessarily judge a person. She's very active, probably. Mm-hmm. It just seems like a lot of food for her. That's all I have. Yeah. She doesn't really eat that much. Don't force her to have that much. Yeah. It's a little heavy and her stomach first thing. You'll make her feel bloated. [laughter] Right? Ingrid? Eat whatever you want, Ingrid. [laughter] However much or however little. Just enjoy the episode. I hope you're having a great breakfast and morning. Yes. Bye. [music] If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at skinnard.fm. Call our voicemail line at 206-338-2792. Okay. For the type B. Well, no, we're going to keep the number. Just don't mistake us for the sex of Alex, please. They can get their own number. Or email us text or mp3s to skinnard.fm. Jessica May's Vocal Talent and Musical Style is going to be found at maytunes.com. Opoponax is artistic work and general updates can be located at opoponaxfeathers.wordpress.com. The entire run of Flashpulp can be found at skinnard.fm or via the search bar and iTunes. Flashcast is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution non-commercial 2.6 license. [music] Sunday is to leave my hour that's number there. Here is the shadow that is with our number there. Little as flowers will never awake a new morning. Not where the black road of our own has taken you. Angels have no thought of ever returning you. Would they be I'd be if I am a burning you? Oh, dear, I'm there. I have to calm myself and seriously say mama's got a number too without laughing. It's tense. Your ass is tense. Momma's got a number two. Please don't be in there much longer clippers. Sorry. She's really got a number two. Momma's got a number two. Okay, for real. Momma's got a number two. Please don't be in there much longer clippers. Damn. Okay. I'll do it again. Momma's got a number two. Is that too loud still? That wasn't too loud. Okay. I like holding my stomach. Momma's got a number two. Please don't be in there much longer clippers. Momma's got a number two.